Grade 1, Starter 1, Breaking The Ice

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Semester 1 – Week 1
Objectives: After the lesson, students are able to:
- say “Hi, Hello” and introduce their names to the teacher and their friends.
- identify the weather symbols and weather words - ask and answer what the weather is like today.
- make the weather wheels.
Topic- Key language
Resources and Materials
Key Activities

BREAKING
THE ICE
Lesson 1

GREETINGS
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WEATHER
SYMBOLS &
WORDS
Integrated skills:
speaking, listening,
reading
Key vocabulary:
Hi, Hello
weather, cloudy, rainy,
sunny, snowy, windy
Sentence patterns:
*My name is Minh
*What’s the weather like
today?
- It’s sunny.

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Warm up and introduction:
Materials:
- Tiny Talk book
- A ball / balls
- Heavy paper
- Crayons / colored
pencils
- Brass fasteners
- Scissors
Teaching tips
Helping young learners
learn a new language
* Introduce English
slowly with enjoyable
activities.
* Support what you say
with gestures, actions,
movements and facial
expression.
* Help the children feel
secure by repeating
familiar activities, e.g.
songs and rhymes.
* Repeat in English what
children say in their
mother tongue.

- Say Hi / Hello to the students. Explain the words Hi / Hello used to greet someone
friendly.
- After each word, use the body language (gestures) to demonstrate.
e.g. Hi – flutter 2 fingers (the pointer finger and the middle finger)
Hello – wave your hand
Introduce your name:
- Use the teacher’s name card (e.g. Ms Trang) and the sentence card to introduce his/
her name Hello! I am Trang - My name is Ms Trang.
Play “Toss the Ball”
- Bring a small rubber ball to class. Greet the class and then throw the ball to one of the
students. The student who catches the ball greets the class (say Hi or Hello) and
introduces his/her name then throws the ball to another student. The game continues
until the students can say it fluently.
* For large classes, after modeling the game; have students form groups of 8 to 10 to
play. Circulate, monitoring and helping.
 “Hi, Hello” song
- Play the CD (Tiny Talk book) or sing the song (Ss are quiet and listen to the song).
- Play the CD or sing the song one more time. Ask students to sing along in chorus.
HI, HELLO SONG
Hi, Hello, Hello,
Hi, Hello, Hello,
Hi, Hello,
Hi, Hello,
Hi, Hello, Hello
Hi, Hello,
Hi, Hello,
Hi, Hello, Hello.
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Lesson presentation:
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*Young learners should Lead-in: Focus students’ attention on the pictures of weather
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have fun with English!
they show different types of weather.
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* The more English
 Explain weather. Use the pictures of weather symbols to present
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children hear, the more
they will learn.
* They will learn
gradually – they won’t
say everything perfectly
to start with. Encourage
them by responding
positively.

sunny, snowy, windy. Read each word out loud. After each word, use the body
language to demonstrate.
e.g. sunny – hold arms above the head in a circle
cloudy – cover eyes with hands
rainy – flutter fingers downward
snowy – wrap arm around body and shiver
windy – “blow children over” with a swoop of your arms
- Hold up each picture and have students look, listen, do the actions and repeat.
- After students have a little understanding of the vocabulary, have them take turns
calling out the words while the class performs corresponding actions and use the body
language.
 ACTIVITY 1: Practice through a chant
 Sunny sunny, clap clap clap
Windy windy, snap snap snap
Rainy, hop.
Snowy, stop
Cloudy, spin around like a top.
- Ask Students to do actions to express the meaning of the new words while they are
chanting.
- Assign some students tambourines to play while they chant.
Have a student go outside (or look out of the window) and describe the weather to the
class.
 Ask “What’s the weather like today?” then answer “sunny / cloudy / rainy”
to point out the question about (today’s) weather. Model the example, ask students to
listen and repeat.
 ACTIVITY 2: Practice asking & answering about the weather
- Divide the class into two groups. One group asks and the other half answer when
teacher shows the picture of weather symbol. Have them take turns practicing the
sentence.
(You do not need to ask the students to repeat fluently because they will ask and
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answer these questions every English lesson.)
 EXTRA IDEA:

Help your students learn better with fun crafts by

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Rain or Shine Craft
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(Additional material 1) and Weather Wheel (Additional materials 2, 3)
 EXTRA ACTIVITY: Making WEATHER WHEEL
- Make several copies of My Weather Wheel from heavy paper. Prepare brass fasteners
for each group. (Additional materials 2,3)
- Have students work in group of 6. Give each group a set of My Weather Wheel. Ask
them to color the weather symbols.
- Circulate, monitoring and helping Ss to assemble the weather wheel patterns.
- Display their work in a special Display area. (Works from our heart)
* (Each student can make his or her own “My Weather Wheel”. Children will love to
take this “My Weather Wheel” home to share with family members.)

 Recommended reading for weather symbols and activities:
The “Original” Monthly Idea Book - March (by Karen Sevaly – Teacher’s Friends,
a Scholastic Company)

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WEATHER SYMBOLS (Suggested)

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Additional material 1

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Additional material 2
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Cut these weather wheel patterns from heavy paper. Color with crayons or colored pencils. Cut out the area
Assemble with a brass fastener and move the wheel to show the weather each day.

Additional material 3
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Periods 3 - 4

Semester 1 – Week 1
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Objectives: - To refresh students’ memories on the target language from the previous lesson.
- Students practice basic greetings and introducing themselves by name in English.
- Through the activities, students can identify the weather symbols and weather words.
- Students can ask and answer what the weather is like today and sing the “What’s the weather?” song.
Topic- Key language
Resources and Materials
Key Activities

¶Weather Report:
BREAKING
THE ICE
Lesson 2

Song
WHAT’S THE
WEATHER?
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Introducing
oneself
Integrated skills:
speaking, listening,
reading, writing
Revised vocabulary:
Hi/ Hello! .
weather, cloudy, rainy,
sunny, snowy, windy
Sentence patterns:
* I’m Minh= I am Minh
* What’s the weather like
today?
- It’s sunny.

Materials:
- CD
- Tiny Talk book
- A ball
- Word cards
- Dice
Teaching tips
Helping young learners
learn a new language
* Use English in class as
the main language for
communication.
* Use gestures, actions,
and pictures to help
children understand.
* Children often need to
talk in order to learn –
let children use their
mother tongue for
communication,
especially to start with.
* Recast in English
what children say to you
in their mother tongue.
* Answer children in
English as much as
possible.

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- Teacher has the students move My Weather Wheel to show today’s weather.
- Ask: What’s the weather like today? – Students answer.
- Teacher asks two more questions:
* What’s the day today?
* What’s the month?
-Teacher answers each question and asks students to repeat, then writes the date and
draws / puts the picture of the weather symbol on the board.
(You do not need to ask the students to repeat fluently because they will ask and answer
these questions every English lesson.)

Warm up and Review:
Make and decorate the name card
- Give each student a piece of white paper (A4 – sized paper).
- Ask them to fold the paper into four equal parts.

LAN ANH

LAN ANH

- Ask them to glue two parts together to make a 3D-shaped triangle.
- Ask them to write their name in large letters on one side of the triangle and glue two
parts together to make a 3D-shaped triangle, then color and decorate their name cards.
Pass the ball
- Students make a big circle. Teacher has a ball then plays the Hi, Hello song and
passes the ball to the student next to him/her. That student passes it to the next one and
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* Use their mother
so on.
tongue for support when - Stop the music suddenly.
you do a new activity or - The student with the ball will use his / her name card
and introduce
if no one understands.
his/her name.
* Talk a lot in English to
(e.g. Hello/Hi! I am Lan / Tuấn.)
your students – they
- Play the music again and continue this game in the same way.
need to hear English.
Rainbow game
- Arrange chair in a circle, making sure you have one less than the number of children
playing the game. (Students can play the game in the school yard - standing in a circle)
Select one student to stand in the center of the circle. Ask the other students to each sit
in a chair.
- Give every student a weather symbol. (Each symbol should be different, with the
weather word written boldly on it.)
- The student standing in the center calls out the weather word after the others ask in
chorus What’s the weather like today?
- The children with this weather symbol must try to change the places before the person
in the middle can get his/ her chair.
- The student left without a chair takes the position in the center and the game continues.
* Every now and then, instruct the person in the middle to call out “Rainbow!”. When
this happens, everyone must try to get a new chair.
Lesson presentation:
Lead-in: Focus students’ attention on the pictures of weather symbols. Ask What’s
the weather like today?
- Tell students that will listen to the song about today’s weather.
- Read the song line by line for students to repeat.
- Play the recording. Students listen.
- Play the recording again. Students listen, do the actions and sing along.
 ACTIVITY 1: Song What’s the weather?
(to the tune of Clementine)
What’s the weather?
What’s the weather?
What’s the weather like today?
Tell us (student’s name)
What’s the weather?
What’s the weather like today?
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Is it sunny? (hold arms above the head in a circle)
Is it cloudy? (cover eyes with hands)
Is it rainy? (flutter fingers downward)
Is it snowy? (wrap arm around body and shiver)
Is it windy? (“blow children over” with a swoop of your arms )
What’s the weather like today?
-By Joan Kang ShinOPTIONAL 1: Weather songs or chants ( “What’s the weather like today?” song downloaded from YouTube)
OPTIONAL 2: Sing “How’s the weather” song (downloaded from YouTube)
- Divide class into six groups. Give each group a set of word card with weather symbol
on it.
- Play the song the first time for students to listen.
- Read each line of the song aloud for students to repeat.
- Play the song again for students to sing along.
- Students stand up and show their cards when they sing the word on their cards
 ACTIVITY 2: Dice game
- Students work in groups of four. They take turns to roll the dice to pick up the symbol
(on the top side). When the student picks up the symbol after rolling the dice, he/she
reads aloud the word and does actions to express the meaning of the word. He/she gets
one point for the correct word. If they get the word “LUCKY”, they get one point
without saying any words.
- The first student to get 5 points is the winner.
 EXTRA IDEA: Making “Bulletin Boards and More!”
Creating clever bulletin boards for your classroom need not take amount of time and
money. With a little preparation and know-how you can have different boards each
month with very little effort.
- Welcome your students to school with a cute bulletin board.
- Try one of suggested to decorate your classroom.
- Enlarge the poster board, color and decorate. Print student names then add their
names onto the board.
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The “Original” Monthly Idea Book! (by Karen Sevaly TE
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DICE GAME – Weather words
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sunny

cloudy

rainy

☺LUCKY

windy

snowy

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Periods 1 - 2

Semester 1 – Week 2
Objectives: After the lesson, students are able to:

- know how to greet someone in a friendly way, introduce themselves by name and ask someone’s name in English.
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- become acquainted with some basic classroom commands /instructions. ( Teacher divides the set of instructionsDS
for each period
and presents the new language a few at a time – not all at a time)
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- chant and sing the “classroom commands”.
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Topic- Key language
Resources and Materials
Key Activities
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BREAKING
Weather Report: Weather songs or chants ( “What’s the
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THE ICE
Lesson 3

BASIC
CLASSROOM
LANGUAGE
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Everyday
instructions
Integrated skills:
speaking, listening,
reading
Revised vocabulary:
*Hi/ Hello! I’m Minh.
*My name is Minh.
weather, cloudy, rainy,
sunny, snowy, windy
* What’s the weather like
today?
- It’s sunny

Key vocabulary:
Come in
Say hello / goodbye

Materials:
- Tiny Talk book
- A ball
- Word cards
- A noise – maker
- A soft ball

Note: Using “Please”
before or after the
command to make it
more polite.
Teaching tips
Total Physical Response
* The first time you use
TPR, you can explain in
the mother tongue
before you start. Do
simple actions and say
what you are doing.
* If you have large class,
divide it up into groups
depending on the space
you have, e.g. Six
students go first, then
six more

Remember
*Give very young

today?”

song downloaded from YouTube)
- Teacher asks three questions:
* What’s the day today?
* What’s the month?
* What’s the weather like today?
- Teacher answers the first two questions and asks students to repeat, then writes the
date and draws / puts the picture of the weather symbol on the board.
Monday, November 12th, 2012
cloudy

Warm up and Review:
Hello game
- Bring a bell (drum, whistle) or other noise-maker; a soft ball.
- All the students sit on chairs in a circle. Teacher is in the middle.
- Go up to a student, shake hands, and say Hello, I am (I’m)....… What’s your name?
- Explain What’s your name? Ask students to repeat several times.
- You and the student introduce yourselves and ask What’s your name? to other
children. Then they stand up and introduce themselves to others.
- When all the students are up and moving about, make a noise with your noise-maker.
You and the children must run and find a seat. There will be one seat too few.
- The child who doesn’t find a seat goes to the middle and starts the game again.
- After they have greeted, introduced themselves and asked their friends’ names, the
students sit in a circle and one throws a soft ball to another, who has to say Hi / Hello,
I am (My name’s) …….. What’s your name?

Lesson presentation:
Lead-in: Focus students’ attention on the pictures. Use the pictures to help students
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Stand up / Sit down
learners one instruction remember the meaning of the words.
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open / close
at a time.
- Ask students to repeat the phrases (instructions) and do the-actions at the same time.
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Pencils up (down)
*Increase the number
- Have students say the phrases out loud again in groups, if possible
from memory.
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Repeat, please!
of instructions in a
ACTIVITY 1: Total Physical Response ( TPR)
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(Again, please!)
sequence as learners
- Teacher uses gesture (stand up) and word card to present STAND
UP (students sit
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Louder, please!
Listen carefully

Sentence patterns:
Please stand up.
Please sit down.
Open your book, please.
Close your book, please.
Please put your book away.

Put your pencils up/ down
Raise your hand, please.
( Hands up)
Look at me/ the board.
Clap your hands.

progress.

and look at the teacher, don’t do anything).
- Teacher does the action one more time and asks students to look at the teacher and
imitate the teacher.
- Teacher gives the command Stand up and asks students to perform the action
- Teacher does the same way with SIT DOWN, OPEN YOUR BOOK, CLOSE
YOUR BOOK, PUT YOUR BOOK AWAY, RAISE YOUR HAND…..
ACTIVITY 2: Teddy Bear says
- Teacher introduces to the children a new friend. It is a teddy bear (use a real one).
- Teacher sets a context:
* Today we have a new friend. Let’s see. ( show a teddy bear puppet) Hello! My
name is Carol. Listen to me and do what I do, OK?
Carol says Stand up please. ( everyone stands up)
Carol says Sit down please. ( everyone sits down)
Open your book, please. ( everyone will not do the action)
(When teddy bear says Carol says, students should do the action. When teddy bear
doesn’t say Carol says, student should not do the action)
- Continue this game with other commands.
- Invite a volunteer student to come to the front of the class, take the teddy bear and
does the action.
- Continue with some other volunteer students.
ACTIVITY 3: “ Classroom Commands” chant
- Teacher chants, does the action and claps his /her hands.
( * clap hands once - *** clap hands three times)
Stand up please * * *
Sit down please * * *
Open your book, please * * *
Close your book, please * * *
Put your book away, please * * *
- Teacher chants again and asks students to chant along, do the action and clap their
hands at the same time. (Teacher can stamp feet, nod head or shake body, etc.)
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